News
New Thematic Issue of The Hungarian Historical Review: Fabricating History
- Details
- Category: Institute
The second issue of Volume 3 (2014) of The Hungarian Historical Review has come out! This special thematic issue is entitled "Fabricating History". The articles published in this issue examine the relationship between historical representation and verification in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age. The contents of the issue can be read here.
Annual subscriptions: $80/€60 ($100/€75 for institutions), postage excluded.
For Hungarian institutions HUF7900 per year, postage included.
Single copy $25/€20. For Hungarian institutions HUF2000.
Send orders to The Hungarian Historical Review, H-1250 Budapest, P.O. Box 9. Hungary; e-mail: .
Our new volume: „Mosques in Ottoman Hungary”
- Details
- Category: Events
The RCH Institute of History has published the newest volume of the serial Monumenta Hungariae Historica entitled „Mosques in Ottoman Hungary” by Balázs Sudár, research fellow of the Institute of History. The great work (more than 650 pages, with 225 pictures, and detailed indexes) contains the description of 450 Muslim places of worship existed in Hungary under 150 years of Ottoman rule. The author collected and compared all kinds of sources concerning this topic during his large-scale research. The Muslim places of worship were not only religious institutions but also the centres of cities and settlements and the places of community life, and also regional economic centres. Mosques played determining roles in the life of the settlements, so their history may provide important information about the life of Hungary under Ottoman rule.
Hungarian Royal Crowning Exhibition in Pozsony (Bratislava)
- Details
- Category: Events
As a result of two years’ work of the “Momentum Holy Crown Research Team” of HAS RCH Institute of History, an exhibition was opened in the Castle of Pozsony (Bratislava) on July 15th, 2014, organized by the Slovenské národné múzeum–Historické múzeum and the Hungarian National Museum about the crowning coins published for the Hungarian royal crowning ceremonies held in Pozsony (Bratislava) between 1563 and 1830.
{gallery}Lendulet/koronazasi{/gallery}
Conference of the Bulgarian–Hungarian Joint Academic Commission in Budapest
- Details
- Category: Events
The Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the BAS Institute for Historical Studies, and the Bulgarian–Hungarian Joint Academic Commission of Historians organized an international conference on Contacts and Conflicts in Central and Southeast Europe: Hungarian and Bulgarian Approaches on May 13–14, 2014, in Budapest.
Tamás Stark in the USA
- Details
- Category: Events
Tamás Stark, senior research fellow of the Institute of History RCH HAS were lecturing in the USA in 2014.
In Feburary, he had a university lecture titled The Fate of the Hungarian Jewish Community during the Holocaust and after Liberation at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennesse.
The Hungarian Historical Review and 1951–1989 issues of Acta Historica on JSTOR!
- Details
- Category: Events
The Hungarian Historical Review and issues between 1951 and 1989 of its legal predecessor, Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae have been successfully digitalized and made available for subscribers by the American JSTOR database on:
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=hunghistrevi
New Issue of World History (2014/1.)
- Details
- Category: Events
The first issue of World History (Világtörténet) for 2014 has been published! The contents of the issue can be read here.
The journal World History is published by the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The four volumes of World History contain essays by Hungarian and foreign scholars on various topics pertaining to world history, as well as reviews on the secondary literature published in Hungary and abroad. The language of the journal is Hungarian, but each article includes an abstract in English.
Subscriptions can be made at any Hungarian post office, but issues of the journal (including older issues) can be bought or ordered from the Institute as well (postal address: MTA BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 1014 Budapest, Úri u. 53.; telephone: 36/1/224-6700/624; e-mail address: .)
New Issue of The Hungarian Historical Review: Special Issue on the History of Family
- Details
- Category: Events
The first issue of Volume 3 (2014) of The Hungarian Historical Review has been published! This special thematic issue is entitled "The History of Family, Marriage and Divorce in Eastern Europe".
Annual subscriptions: $80/€60 ($100/€75 for institutions), postage excluded.
For Hungarian institutions HUF7900 per year, postage included.
Single copy $25/€20. For Hungarian institutions HUF2000.
Send orders to The Hungarian Historical Review, H-1250 Budapest, P.O. Box 9. Hungary; e-mail: .
Book premiere in the Institute of History: Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
- Details
- Category: Events
Anne Applebaum’s most recent book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (published in 2012) has been published in Hungarian, and for the premiere of the Hungarian edition she was invited to the Institute of History, RCH HAS, on April 25, 2014.
Anne Applebaum was introduced by the Deputy Director of the Institute, Attila Pók, who praised her works on the Communist regimes. Her previous book, Gulag: A History, was published in 2003 and won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004.
International Conference in Budapest Commemorating the Holocaust in Hungary
- Details
- Category: Events
The Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Holocaust Memorial Centre organized an international conference on Crime, Responsibility – Memory. The Hungarian Holocaust after 70 Years on April 24, 2014, in the Central Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. The conference was opened by József Pálinkás, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szabolcs Szita, Director of the Holocaust Memorial Centre, Budapest, and András Heisler, President of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities. The program can be read here.
Refo Conference in Budapest: Revolt, Violence and Memory
- Details
- Category: Events
On May 22-23, 2014 the international conference Revolt, Violence and Memory: Peasant Uprisings in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe will be organized at Budapest by the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and Refo500. The major aim of the conference, held on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Hungarian peasant uprising of 1514, is to re-contextualize this uprising and revolts in early modern Europe more generally by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history.
More information about the conference can be found here, on the RefoRC website: http://www.refo500.nl/rc/news/view/978/conference-revolt-violence-and-memory.html. The program can be read here.
Cooperation agreement
- Details
- Category: Events
Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA BTK) and Péter Farbaky, Director General of Budapest History Museum signed an Agreement of Cooperation on March 31, 2014. The two institutions (from the MTA BTK part, especially the Institute of History, Institute of Archeology and Institute of Art History) have had cooperation for decades in the research of important sites and events of the Hungarian medieval history, including organizing conferences and exhibitions together.
You can find our previous articles in the News Archive.